Another night of glorious failure,47 seconds for another goal from the right flank wonder who our full back was?.Will MM ever learn?. Could have been 3 down after 15 but to our credit foughtback superbly.Unfortunately NO CLEAN sheets coupled with 2 against in 7 out of last 8 = Relegation.Mick you have the players put them where they should be Strikers will score goals Strikers will not make left backs.Over to you.

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If we can perform like this in our upcoming games, we should get a fair few wins. Not many teams can boast more posesion than Arsenal, especially when Arsenal have 12 men with the referee seemingly a gunners fan. Milijas’s passing was fantastic, and mancienne had a good game. Its a shame about the start of the game where we were poor. Maybe things could have been different if Fabrigas had gotten sent off, they almost certainly wouldnt have got their second, as Fabrigas was the man who set up that goal.

If that tackle was from henry, people would have been calling him the dirtiest player in the league. How did the linesman not see it was a horific challenge. Even if that tackle had only been a yellow, Fabregas should have had multiple yellows for impeding our play throughout the game, after all he stopped our free kicks 3 times, Denilson did it once and received a yellow. Arsenal are such a dirty team.

On a different note, i wonder if Blackpool will be punnished for making 10 changes in the game against Aston villa?

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Stearman & Ward not up to this level.
No attacking left or right back.
Doyle unlucky.
SEB gets 10 minutes- youre having a laugh.
Basically, Micks position to be determined in the next 4 or 5 games if we don’t get any results he surely must go.

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Can’t see where our next win will come from. End of!

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I have one question; where are the goals going to come from?

Doyle-looks good, doing mostly the right things but cannot score, jinx or whatever but he aint delivering

Fletcher-gone off the boil, not a first pick, missed some sitters, another Scottish international that cant hack it in the prem?

SEB-the overweight supersub, at least his form looks to be on the rise but can we expect double figures from him this season?

Henry/Milijas/Jones etc – almost no goals from midfield, Milijas looks the business at least he isnt scared to take a shot

Jarvis-playmaker, supplier, can we expect him to carry the load for the front line?

Goals from the centre halves(Craddock/Berra etc)-not happening this season, Craddocks spooky goal form last year is a distant memory, Berra couldnt hit a barn door

Kightly – maybe if we can get him back soon

Hunt- is it just me or is this guy crap? I reserve judgement as he is just back after a long spell out, granted some nice touches but he bottles out of a lot of tackles and his distribution is awful

So MM, where are the goals coming from? As the article says great football but 7 in 9 defeats..

Charlie
ATLANTA WOLVES

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A gallant defeat!That just about sums up Wolves!

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Rewind to the start of this four game stint, if someone told me we would get three points from the four games playing some good football and giving all four a run for their money, I would have bit your arm of. We need to take this form and unleash it on the rest if the league. Next 6 games we need a minimum of 10 points or it is fizzy pop for us next year.

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You’re a scumbag, for wishing that on one of our players.

People like you, that come out with comments like that make me ashamed to be a Wolves fan.

Yes the boy is struggling but you never wish that on one of our own.

Disgusting

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come on guys its not all doom and gloom !!

we have got 3 more points from these games than we thought we would !!

and lets face it -late goals aside we have played fab !!!

hopefully ward is injured and cant play sat and things will look alot better and the team more solid – i dont mind elokobi or jelle

its the next 8 games that make or break our season !!! i think we need four wins from the 8

if we play like we have in the last 5 then rolls on the good times !!!!

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Come on doubters compare this performance to the same game last year. Last night we looked like a team from the same league last year we weren’t on the same planet. Yes there were some failings but there were so many positives. Passion, quick pass delivery, well-timed and clean tackles and bearing in mind we are playing one upfront we created enough chances to win – just have to take them!I really think that this augers well for the rest of the season and a good position come the end.

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Number 4 , people like you should not be allowed in the ground with comments like that, why don’t you go and watch the Baggies where you belong!.

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4 – You’re a complete idiot and you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself.

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No.4 Wolvo Wolf, you should be ashamed of yourself hoping that a Wolves player is out for the season.

I am not a Ward fan and do not think he should be in the starting 11 however say we had injuries to other potnetial left backs and needed him to play we would have no one.

On the game and the media and premiership in general my main beef is the hypocrisy of it all, Fagregas makes a bad chanllange it’s not only not a sending off but no big deal. The ref in my opinion had a good game last night but should have clamped down on Arsenal standing over our free kicks, moaning and diving a little earlier and should have had the balls to send of Fabregas, but on the whole let the game flow as much as possible.

Then there is the Blackpool 10 changes, the upraor last season after Man U was way over the top and now the same people in the papers and on radio are saying it’s fine for Blackpool to do it.

Onwards and upwards and if we keep putting in performances like the last few weeks the results should come over the next 7 games. If we don’t I will begin to worry big time.

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4 – Horrific comments, seriously.

16 – Shouldn’t you change your name to The Flying Whinger ??

When was the last time you heard Wenger come out after a game and say Arsenal were lucky ? We did all we could and created far more chances than most team will against them this season.

Re Ward – More simplistic bashing of the guy. If he’s at fault – I will happily criticise him, but come on, Milijas let his man turn him and sprint away, into our half. The ball goes out wide and Ward has two men coming at him with Jarvis struggling to make it back to cover. Even a seasoned left back would have struggled to have dealt with that threat. We lost the ball cheaply and were punished by slack marking in the box.

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not going to bitch about the result our players or our performance.but how on earth did that petulant arrogant snivelling piece of spanish filth stay on the pitch if that had been a wolves player he would of certainly been sent off.no respect for the officials continually showing dissent and disregard for the rules of the game. A TOTAL DISGRACE .

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A good performance, however goals win games and you didn’t score, watching it Arsenal could have been out of sight after 15 minutes so you need to factor that into your assessment of the game. The Fabregas tackle was a straight red no question however what seems to have gone unmentioned was the Millijas stamp on Sagna i think on the halfway line which was also a straight red yet not even a booking. So these things do tend to even themselves out.

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The whole wolves team and the management aint good enough and needs to be changed get ready for the championship again.

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Whilst the positives were that we created many chnaces, and were very unlucky not to get a point, there are many causes for concern also.

Mancienne – dreadful, gave the ball away more often than not, I’d love to see his OPTA stats from the game.

Ward – not good enough, but we know this.

Stearman – has been fantastic recently, but was well at fault for the goal and was lucky not to be at fault for a 2nd.

In general some of the passing was embarrassing as well in the first half, where confidence was clearly lacking.

The big fear is that the margins are tight, we never lose big, but the margns never fall on our side. Its really hard being a Wolves fan at this moment.

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No.4 Wolvo Wolf..how dare you call yourself a Wolves fan you horrible little oik. How the hell can you hope that a Wolves player is seriously enough injured to be out for the rest of the season ? If you are a regular visitor to the Mol then I would have you banned for life for gutter press tripe like that.

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I agree with all comments about no 4.

27 Shame you cannot come up with something more original.

Along with some others you forget that the idea of this blog is to air you own opinions.

My posts do always contain some ideas if you care to read them, and whilst we keep losing, making strange decisions, have players sent off for bad tackles, I will continue to make them.

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I couldnt watch the game cos I had to go to work at 7am here in Melbourne. But my 14 year old did see it all and was so upset at the end cos he knew Wolves are a true footballing team that need that bit of luck.
How dare wolvowolf wish Ward such injury. Ward has served this club with integrity, loyalty and hard work.
Arsenal’s number 4 was constantly going on at the ref which deserved a yellow in itself. Then the tackle on Ward and just a yellow – unreal.
Mccarthy’s response was top class and confirms Wolves status as a solid distinguished football club.
Wolves forever from wherever we are.

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4′ your’e a pratt, not a Wolves fan.

Watched on MOTD and I reckon the first 10 minutes were our worst. After that (what it showed on MOTD) we certainly had more chances at goal and they should consider themselves lucky their keeper was on form which he was. One of the things I like about MM is how straight talking he is in the post match interview about the tackle on ward. Unlike other managers, he wasn’t moaning about it because I reckon when MM was playing it was just a late tackle. Ok, maybe Fabragas
should of walked but was it intentional? However, just imagine the wrath had it been Karl Henry taking out one of theirs in similar fashion? In any event, Aresnal were lucky- we wern’t.

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9 – What a clown, Do you watch any games? For a start berra cant hit a barn door? How the keeper saved his shot last night i’ll never know! Hunt, crap? You having a laff?

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Sigh….Yes more plaundits for playing good football but the end result is becoming alarmingly familar, 0 points. Didn’t the Baggies get lots of praise for their play before being relegated? It looks like its going to be back to 4-5-1 before much longer and then grinding some results out.

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Now I’m not the best person to comment as I rarely see much action in Australia, however If you play with one striker (which I assume we are with two widemen) who hasn’t scored, the rest of the team has a huge burden placed upon it. I often read that Doyle ‘put’s in a selfless shift’ time and time again but with few scoring options this deficiency in goals needs to be addressed. Playing upfront alone stifles creativity and link up play which in affect means attacks start from deeper in defence/midfield enabling our opponents more time to find their shape.

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4. I hope Karma wil get you for that.

What a vindictive and atrocious comment.

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I think part of the problem is we’re kidding ourselves. MM needs to see the problems at the back instead of putting defeats down to bad luck. Yes, we had chances to score, but they were generally half chances; Arsenal cut us apart several times and created many chances that really should have been scored. My fear is that MM simply believes our luck will change and will do nothing differently; we had both good and bad luck last night; on another night we might have won this game, but on balance Arsenal created the better chances. We have a run of ‘easier’ games until the end of the year now … its not time for MM to be complacent , he needs to work on our deficiencies and not assume defeats are down to luck alone, I don’t think there’s a team in the prem. we can be complacent against.

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53 – Skiver.

I have to agree – a number of the goals conceded have been because of defensive errors. Stearman lost his man yesterday for the goal, failed to control a pretty horrible ball played to him to allow Arshavin through on goal and in the second half, played a suicide ‘chip’ that failed to clear the attacker, to allow a run on goal. That’s three errors from one centre half (although I’m being a little harsh on the second one).

That’s not picking on Stearman either – just an example. But we can’t afford to ‘gift’ teams goals when we’re hardly prolific at the other end.

It’s 19 games in all competitions now since our last clean sheet and we’ve only scored 2 goals three times in the last 19 league games.

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No4,stick to your playstation, football and society would be a better place.

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it may just be me, but i can see us getting 27 points from the next 9 games! bring it on!

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Maltawolf…and a few others…What you failed to mention about Arsenal’s opening goal was the part Milijas (didn’t) play in it. Well before Ward could get anywhere near Song he had picked up the ball in our half gone round Milijas like a tug going round the Arc Royal and then exposed Ward who couldn’t get near him before he made the cross that left us cold.
As it happens IMO Milijas went on to have a good game, but, his lack of pace and mobility are a worry.
Watching the game on TV in Valletta isn’t quite the same as sitting in the Steve Bull.

4)Wolvo Wolf I hope you get everything for Christmas that all the real Wolves fans wish for you

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McCarthy out!!
6 points from last 11 games says it all, we have relegation written all over us.
Face facts, if we have the same manager in charge at the end of january, we are down.
Same old story, conceding early and late goals.

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Okay, those three games have come and gone and we’ve played well in all of them and got three points, which should have been four.
Now we face a run of games from which we should take points provided we can cut out the individual mistakes and play at the level we have been. I abhor some of the negative posts on here, apart from the goals against, I think we have been entertaining to watch and I think the National press and TV think so too. Now it’s points we need.
It will be very interesting to see what happens with the Blackpool / Holloway situation. They surely cannot ignore his 10 changes after what they did to us and Holloway is threatening to resign if they fine Blackpool. Maybe the FA will do FA (sweet Fanny Adams !) and will use the excuse of the 25 man squads changing things.

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It would have been a straight red if it was a wolves player who committed the challenge for 2 reasons.
1 – Arsenal are a big team who referees are intimidated by, whether they like it or not They dont want to be slated in the papers the following day by the likes of Wenger and ferguson and co. They dont mind other managers moaning because that isnt back page news generally.
2 – Wolves players and management arent cheats, or actors. If the same scenario would have happend to an arsenal players, theres no doubt that players would have acted as if he was shot sommersalting to the ground and rolling over 50 times, the other 10 arsenal players wouldd have been round the referee brandishing invisible red cards, shouting abuse until they got there own way, and Wenger would have been just as bad. Our players and management never do that, which is a good thing in my oppinions as i have so much respect for them in not cheating, but theres no doubt this hampers our chances of getting decisions.

I watched MoTD yesterday, and was expecting wenger to proclaim he didnt see the tackle, as it happens, his response was a little more dignified, but he didnt state that it was a bad challenge, just that he had spoken to fab, who said it was an accident. Im convinced if it was the other way he would have been fuming that every player is out to get his team, and would have been saying how the same challenge was a career threatening one.

NRB – see what missing a game can do to statistics, 6 from 11 or 9 from 12, just shows that 1 game can make your points look allot healthier. now imagine if we pick up a few wins in these next few games, it could easily be 18 from 15. or even 16 from 15 with 2 wins and a draw, which considering our fixtures seems doable. IF we continue our form.

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While the fabregas challenge was bad the henry tackle was a lot worse and deserves just as much criticism as fabregas.

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Happy_baggie – Mick has already slated Henrys tackle after the wigan game. He stated it was a bad tackle and it was a clear red. I think his comments was meant less about individual tackles and more about wolves being brandished a dirty team for the tackles we have made. Basically he said, football is about tackles, and yes, sometimes there will be late tackles, but that doesnt mean we should stop tackling. I think Micks statement was the correct one, After all it wasnt Fabs fault he didnt get sent off, it was the officials, and we all know what trouble managers can get into when they have goes at officials, whether its warrented or not.

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time for myokolo to come in at center half with cradock

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70 – I never meant my comment to be taken badly – but if you think henry made no contact at wigan (or Spurs) you need better glasses mate – the player went higher than Ann widdecombe on a high wire !!!!

As for your comments on jara – I don’t defend his tackle and neither did our manager – but one bad challenge in 20 games aint too bad for a defender is it (didn’t Henry make yet another bad challenge last night too) ???????

71 – yes he said it was stupid,….. but by saying anyone who critisises wolves wants tackling banned leaves him nowhere to go when one of yours gets nobbled.

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the way i look at the last 4 games is three draws and one defeat.just trying to cheer myself up.who ever plays they have to do better,some goal will help but who is going to get them goodness kowns.make us dream.

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67, a red card would not have changed the game it was in the 89th min, we lost the game on the 1st goal, not because they didnt have a man sent off

70, if you watched the game on sky football first it was a horrible tackle, have a look and then decide, henrys was far worse

76, totally agree, i assume number 4 was just saying it in a ”it could be a blessing in disguise” kind of way, think its way over the top all the ”i hope you get what you deserve for christmas wolvo wolf” its a message board guys! Everyone has an opinion
Not that i would wish injury on anyone Ward is not up to the job and i hope Van Damme gets a run of games.

Would love to play 442 and go for it saturday, seb and doyle up front

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berra is a donkey should be stearman and mancienne as cbs ward never a football player despite been out of position edwards chases shadows no quality in the team apart from milijas who can see a pass and didnt look out of place against a qualit side like arsenal time for a change in manager getb alan curbishley in
doyle is running round like an headless chicken fletcher was awsome last year at burnley seb top goalscorer but cant get in team this is all down to stubborn idiot like mcarthy oconnor been ere through all managers anywere else u change whole backroom staff but wont pay monet were going down

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As an Arsenal fan – I was impressed at the way Wolves came at us in the 2nd half, and was reminescent at the way you played against Man U (both recent games) – but very clear that you have no goal scorers – Doyle always looks good without ever hitting the back of the net.

Play like that against the non top 4 and you will be ok.

thought it was 50/50 if Fabregas should receive a red – but Henry’s assault on Arshavin was far worse and never got a mention on MOTD or any of the newspapers – and even worse totally ignored by the press. So much for intimidating the ref….good luck for rest of the season.

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difficult this… have we saved out best performances for the top teams? think about it?? apart from Man city we have played really well but have been “unlucky” for several weeks now.
Apart from a growing habit of letting in late goals we havent done badly.
The worry for me is that whether we can play as well against the likes of bolton,brum,blackpool, blackburn? anything less and we will rooted to the bottom of the table.
Didnt see the game and I know arsenal are a great team but sounds like we made fabianski who is an average prem keeper look good with a lack of clinical finishing Jaskalinen,Foster,robinson are good prem keepers and wont be beaten easily either.

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Take a running jump and slop back into your cesspit. JtH.

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